by Tom Greever
Talking to people about your designs might seem like a basic skill, but it can be difficult to do efficiently and well. And, in many cases, how you communicate about your work with stakeholders, clients, and other non-designers is more critical than the designs themselves - simply because the most articulate person usually wins.This practical guide focuses on principles, tactics, and actionable methods for ...
Price: $23.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Ted Dunning, Ellen Friedman
If you're a business team leader, CIO, business analyst, or developer interested in how Apache Hadoop and Apache HBase-related technologies can address problems involving large-scale data in cost-effective ways, this book is for you. Using real-world stories and situations, authors Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman show Hadoop newcomers and seasoned users alike how NoSQL databases and Hadoop can solve a v...
Price: $3.56 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Tony Parisi
As virtual reality approaches mainstream consumer use, a vibrant development ecosystem has emerged in the past few years. This hands-on guide takes you through VR development essentials for desktop, mobile, and browser-based applications. You'll explore the three go-to platforms - OculusVR, Gear VR, and Cardboard VR - as well as several VR development environments, programming tools, and techniques.If ...
Price: $7.67 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Chris Barbour
If you're already up to speed on Puppet and know how to write a basic module, this practical book takes you a critical step further with best practices for building out your Puppet infrastructure. You'll learn how to avoid pitfalls that often leave many teams struggling to maintain what they already have.Ideal for DevOps engineers - and written to cover the upcoming Puppet 4 release - this book sh...
Price: $39.87 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Designing Products People Love 
by Scott Hurff
How can you create products that successfully find customers? With this practical book, you'll learn from some of the best product designers in the field, from companies like Facebook and LinkedIn to up-and-coming contenders. You'll understand how to discover and interpret customer pain, and learn how to use this research to guide your team through each step of product creation.Written for designe...
Price: $15.00 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Kyle Simpson
It's easy to learn parts of JavaScript, but much harder to learn it completely - or even sufficiently - whether you're new to the language or have used it for years. With the "You Don't Know JS" book series, you'll get a more complete understanding of JavaScript, including trickier parts of the language that many experienced JavaScript programmers simply avoid.The serie...
Price: $3.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Dirk Slama, Frank Puhlmann, Jim Morrish, Rishi M Bhatnagar
Current hype aside, the Internet of Things will ultimately become as fundamental as the Internet itself, with lots of opportunities and trials along the way. To help you navigate these choppy waters, this practical guide introduces a dedicated methodology for businesses preparing to transition towards IoT-based business models.With a set of best practices based on case study analysis, expert interviews, and...
Price: $35.99 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
by Amber Case
How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user's life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user's attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining in the background most of the time. You'll learn how to design products that work well, launch well, are easy to support, easy to use, and re...
Price: $16.52 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Ruby Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition 
by Michael Fitzgerald
Updated for Ruby 2.2, this handy reference offers brief yet clear explanations of Ruby's core elements - from operators to blocks to documentation creation - and highlights the key features you may work with every day. Need to know the correct syntax for a conditional? Forgot the name of that String method? This book is organized to help you find the facts fast.Ruby Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition is ide...
Price: $11.12 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015
Building Applications on Mesos
by David Greenberg
How can Apache Mesos make a difference in your organization? With this practical guide, you'll learn how this cluster manager directs your datacenter's resources, and provides real time APIs for interacting with (and developing for) the entire cluster. You'll learn how to use Mesos as a deployment system, like Ansible or Chef, and as an execution platform for building and hosting higher-level...
Price: $29.43 | Publisher: O'Reilly Media | Release: 2015